Day 93 BORNEO -BICYCLES NEVER FORGET

I spent an hour in the small harware/department/convenient store/market repairing Ezra’s new bike with the simple makeshift tools that the woman behind the counter  had to offer. This was our cultural experience for the day. I learned the Malay word for screwdriver and wrench, but have quickly forgotten. Their were five girls/ladies that had gathered watching laughing at me trying to repair this bike in the middle of the store. The young and the old girls are all so enamored of Ezra and Viena. They want to pose for photos and squeeze their cheeks and touch their hair. This was not the case in Thailand, or at least not in Chiang Mai. In Malaysia especailly, Ezra and Viena have been uber-popular. Viena’s bike is being sent back to the factory in “China” – we could not repair the factory defects of her bike. Hopefully they will have a new one at 4pm today. Well, what they say is true, once you learn how to ride a bike you never forget. Ezra is able to ride his bike without training wheels no problem which even more elevated his status with the girls watching. Ezra new bike does not have coaster brakes and his hands are too small to operate the hand brakes. This leaves him with no brakes – like Mylon in Brasil. Hopefully having bikes will move us further along down the beach. I can not see anything to explore locally (walking) besides the beach. Most of our adventures are going to be onwalking/biking the local beach and walking/biking to the local market, with a few excursions to Mount Kinabalu and the orang atans and the giant flowers.

And where in the world were we travelling a year ago on this day?
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